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Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

IT'S DRAFT DAY | Biggest Questions Ahead Of The 2026 NFL Draft

Pushing the Pile: A CBS Sports NFL Podcast

CBS Sports, Football, NFL

Football, Sports

4.22.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In today’s episode Mike Renner and JP Acosta give their biggest question marks ahead of Round 1 of the 2026 NFL Draft.

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(00:00) Intro

(00:54) Who trades out of the top 10?

(6:00) Who is the 1st OL drafted?

(9:18) Where does the 1st DT come off board?

(13:08) What are the Cardinals doing at QB?

(17:52) Where does Kenyon Sadiq go?

(22:27) How far do injury risks fall?

(26:34) Which 2nd tier EDGE gets into Round 1?

(31:50) Maxx Crosby’s future with Raiders

(36:42) When do you draft a 25 year old?

(39:42) Who is this year’s Cole Strange?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome into this draft day edition of pushing the pile.

0:14.1

Mike Reader, J.P. Acosta, coming to you for the next hour here.

0:17.9

And JP, I did my final mock draft.

0:20.6

Submitted it here today. And then I went and looked

0:24.4

at some other mock drafts because I kind of wanted to go in fresh, just like, you know, my

0:27.2

thoughts, what I've been here and what I've seen. And there are new, I looked at people I respect

0:32.9

in the space. And after pick one, we don't have like a single thing in common. This year is absolutely nuts.

0:40.1

I cannot wait to see what happens. And that's why we're going to be going through burning

0:43.8

questions on today's show. We had to limit it to five apiece. I mean, I have a zillion burning

0:49.2

questions going into this draft. But we're doing five apiece, going into night one here. J.P., I'll let you

0:55.6

kick it off. What is your first burning question for this draft?

0:59.9

My first question is who trades out of the top 10? And to add on to that is what does it cost

1:05.8

to trade up into the top 10? Because this class is generally described as a weaker class.

1:12.7

I do think there's a lot of smoke around teams trading back.

1:16.1

I think Arizona at three could trade back.

1:18.4

I think Cleveland has made it very well known that they want to trade out of six.

1:22.5

I think there are potentially teams down the board, like maybe seven,

1:25.5

Washington, who doesn't have a second round pick.

1:28.3

I think they are also looking to trade out of the top 10, but I wonder who trades in.

1:33.7

I think that's where the biggest question becomes is because Dallas is a team that is

1:38.2

potentially one impact defender away from truly being a Super Bowl contender, but they also might

1:43.9

not want to give up

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